How common is the surname Tatar?

1,062 people in the United States had the surname Tatar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 290,721 Americans. It ranked 23,804th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Tatar?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Tatar identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Tatar?

Maria Tatar, American academic in children's literature, folklore and mythology, Germanic languages and.

Where is the surname Tatar most common?

Wikidata records people named Tatar in the United States.

Is the surname Tatar getting more or less common?

More common. 999 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,062 in 2010, up 6.3%.

The surname Tatar

A Czech surname, carried by 1,062 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex T360

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tatar is more common than 85.3% of them.

Origin

Czech origin

Borrowed from Czech, Slovak, Polish Tatar and Hungarian Tatár, an ethnic surname for a Tatar person.

One of 96 Czech surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,062 people named Tatar in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 290,721 Americans. That is up 6.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 999.

#23,804

rank among US surnames

1,062

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+6.3%

change since 2000 (was #23,657)

Who is named Tatar

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

96% of people named Tatar identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
Two or more races 0.7%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Tatars

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Maria Tatar
American academic in children's literature, folklore and mythology, Germanic languages and, born 1945

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Tatar

Tatro

Tatar has the Soundex code T360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T360.

Other Czech surnames

All 96 Czech surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Tatar come from?: Borrowed from Czech, Slovak, Polish Tatar and Hungarian Tatár, an ethnic surname for a Tatar person.
How common is the surname Tatar?: 1,062 people in the United States had the surname Tatar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 290,721 Americans. It ranked 23,804th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Tatar?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Tatar identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Tatar?: Maria Tatar, American academic in children's literature, folklore and mythology, Germanic languages and.
Where is the surname Tatar most common?: Wikidata records people named Tatar in the United States.
Is the surname Tatar getting more or less common?: More common. 999 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,062 in 2010, up 6.3%.